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NORTHERN COUNTIES NOTES.
753
Bridgwater trustees. As is usual in such plenty of objectors to this project of the corporation for obtaining a suitable site for the disposal of their refuse, but there is no valid reason for believing that them
being
the
cases, there will be
harm will be done to anyone or that the uninhabited district of Cadishead Moss will be in any sense prejudiced by the contemplated action of the corporation. March 28th.
BIRMINGHAM. (FROM
OUR OWN
The
CORRESPONDENT.)
Queen’s Hospital.
THE annual meeting of the board of this hospital was held on March 22nd, under the presidency of the Earl of Dudley. The chairman of the board (Alderman Clayton) said that there were three matters in the report of considerable interest : the increase in the number of the beds, the re-arrangement of the casualty ward, and the question of finance. He alluded to these in detail. He pointed out that nineteen-twentieths of the casualty patients were seen twice ; on the second visit they would be charged a registration fee. This was an important departure in the conduct of such cases, which might call for criticism. Mr. Bennet May, chairman of the Medical Committee, said that the year had been a full and satisfactory one, though there had been no very striking features to attract attention. A special vote of thanks was passed to the working-men of Birmingham for the f,1741 15s. 9d. contributed from the Hospital Saturday funds. The Women’s Hospital. The annual meeting was held on March 23rd, the mayor presiding. The report showed that the number of new patients treated at the out-patient department had been 2569, a decrease of 141 compared with last year ; the number of in-patients admitted had been 277, an increase of 67. The committee regretted the loss of Mr. Tait and desired to record their sense of the valuable services he had rendered to the hospital since he had been elected its consulting surgeon. The financial report showed an excess of expenditure over income. Various votes of thanks were passed.
Medical Trial. At the recent assizes Dr. Evans brought an action against the proprietors of the Birmingham Daily Post for an alleged libel contained in an article published on Dec. 29th, 1889. The jury awarded him a verdict with C75 damages. ltTason
College.
ceived for a moderate charge from those parents who are not in a position to pay more, whilst accommodation is afforded for the children of those who are in better circumstances and ableto pay more. The school has recently sustained a great loss in the death of Mr. Illingworth, the late Principal, and the committee will have some difficulty in replacing him.
The Assizes Accommodation for Medical Witnesses. Allusion has been made in previous letters to the entire want of proper accommodation for medical witnesses during the first few days of the assizes, when they are waiting This has now been to be called before the grand jury. remedied, a commodious room in the west corridor of St. George’s Hall having been set apart for medical and other professional witnesses by the finance subcommittee of the city council, which has the control of this and other public buildings. As the assizes are held here four times yearly for the whole of south-west Lancashire the attendance is required of many medical witnesses, who will greatly appreciate this new arrangement for their convenience and comfort. The Blackburn Murder. The trial of the youth aged sixteen for the murder of a chemist at Blackburn took place last week, ending in a verdict of manslaughter and a sentence of fifteen years’ penal servitude. The prisoner, after being arrested on the charge, made a statement, not knowing what the medical evidence would be. The evidence of Dr. Wheatley, surgeon to the Blackburn police, was to the effect that the wounds on the head of the deceased were more likely to be caused by a blow from a hammer held sideways than by striking the head against the floor. The prisoner’s conduct after the tragedy showed great coolness and cunning. The Homicides on Christmas Day and New Year’s Day in
Liverpool. tried for the murder of his wife on the morning of Christmas Day and a young woman for the manslaughter of a man on New Year’s Day. Both fatalities were the result of drink. In the former case, the woman’s back was a mass of bruises and wounds, the causes of death being shock and hæmorrhage. In the other case, the man had received two wounds in the chest, both penetrating the pericardium, and one wounding the heart itself. Sentences of fourteen and seven years respectively were passed. A
man
was
March 28th. _________________
NORTHERN COUNTIES NOTES. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
report has just been issued. It states that the expenditure was :E11,436 12s. 7d. and the income Wlaitley Convalescent Home. £10,275 10s.7d. The great event of the year has been the FROM the report presented at the annual meeting of the transference of the Queen’s Faculty of Medicine. The report Whitley Convalescent Home by Dr. Philipson it appears that deals with the growth and prosperity of the college and gives the number of patients admitted last year was 1536, being a number of interesting details. The total number 41 in excess of the previous year. The annual total
March 28th.
________________
LIVERPOOL. (FROM
OUR OWN
CORRESPONDENT.)
The -Liverpool Eye and Ear Infirmary. MR. EDGAR BROWNE, the senior surgeon to the Liverpool Eye and Ear Infirmary, has just concluded a very successful course of lectures at the hospital, which has been attended by many local medical practitioners and others coming from a considerable distance. Mr. C. G. Lee has delivered three lectures on Diseases of the Ear, the last of which was given on March 27th. These lectures are of a clinical character and are illustrated by patients. The attendance of patients is very large, and the surgeons have very favourable opportunities of demonstrating diseases of the eye and ear in all their forms. The
Liverpool
School for the
Deaf and Dumb.
not medical institutions in the strict sense of the word schools and institutions for deaf mutes are of great interest to all medical practitioners. The Liverpool School for the Deaf and Dumb commenced as a very modest institution in 1825. In 1839 the present school was erected on the site of the old Botanic Garden and opened in October, 1840. The school has given free education to all deaf and dumb
Though
children in the
city and neighbourhood,
boarders
being
re-
admitted since the institution was opened in 1869 has reached 24,753. The results are equally favourable as those given in previous reports. The financial state of the convalescent home is satisfactory, although the receipts were less than in the previous year, the falling off being under the head of legacies, and the expenses were higher, owing to some necessary improvements. Cumberland. Dr. Lediard has concluded his course of lectures to ladies on nursing. The course has been very successful, there being more than 300 entered. Dr. Lediard was the recipient of a testimonial from his class last week at the High School, Carlisle.
Small-pox. Cases of small-pox have been reported from Carlisle, Penrith and Appleby. I see also that a fatal case has occurred at South Shields. It is stated that since the institution of compulsory baths for tramps at Kirkby Stephen the visits of the tramping fraternity have diminished, as has consequently the small-pox. Still, unless the"order of the bath" is made general at country workhouses, it will not do much good.
St. Bees a a Holiday Resort. The inhabitants of St. Bees, which has great natural attractions as a seaside resort, are making an effort to develop and improve the place in this respect. The great railway companies are also aiding by placing St. Bees on their tourist system.
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754 National
Sad Siticide of a Student. Friday evening last a student who had failed at his registration examination at Durham took his life by a large dose of chloral hydrate. It was stated at the inquest that the poor boy, whose age was only sixteen, sat at the examination from Monday until Friday and had set his heart on passing, hence his disappointment. A Long Service. This week Dr. Thos. Stainthorpe, who is medical officer to the Hexham Union workhouse, completed fifty years’ service in that capacity, having been appointed on March 24th, 1843. Dr. Stainthorpe has been in general practice for the past fifty-five years. He is always busy with public duties, and if there is a professional meeting at Newcastle he is almost certain to be present. Sunderland and North Durham Eye Infirmary. It is proposed to hold a, grand bazaar on Monday next in aid of the Sunderland Eye Infirmary. It is to be opened by the Countess of Scarborough and is likely to be one of the largest entertainments of this nature ever held for a Sunderland charity, as over 600 tickets have been already sold. Ambulance Revierv. It is proposed to hold an ambulance review of the principal centres in the northern counties this summer at Newcastle. The date is not yet fixed.
Newcastle-on-Tyne,
Hospital for Consumption.
report of the Executive Committee states that the sums promised to the building fund amount to £10,431 3s. 6d., of The
On
which ;f9571 12s. 6d. have been received. The site for the hospital has been generously given by Earl Fitzwilliam free of rent, and plans of the building have been approved. The site consists of about nineteen acres, situated three miles inland, in the county of Wicklow. It is well sheltered and has a southern aspect, and the medical members of the committee have unanimously reported in its favour. It is. proposed that the constitution and government of the hospital shall be incorporated under the Companies Act, It is intended that the buildings shall be 1867. erected on the plan of the Ventnor Hospital, in separate blocks, the extent of the building depending in the first instance upon the amount of annual support to bepromised. With a view to secure an income for the maintenance of the hospital a member of the Executive Committeehas generously offered to provide £100 per annum in perpetuity if a further sum of ;f900 per annum be promised for the
present.
Sir Patrick Dura’s Hospital, Dublin. A conversazione in aid of the funds of this charity will be’ held in the Royal College of Physicians on April 20th ; and a concert for the same purpose in the Examination Hall, Trinity College, on April 29th.
March 29th.
March 29th.
SCOTLAND. OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) (FROM
(FROM
PARIS. CORRESPONDENT.)
OUR OWN
The Obstetrical Society of France. Reopening of the Convalescent Hospital, Corstorphine. THE second session of this Society will be held at Paris im THIS hospital, which is connected with the Edinburgh the small amphitheatre of the Faculty on April 5th, 6th and Royal Infirmary, has been closed for several months owing to I 7th. The subjects of discussion will be "Symphys6otomie"’ alterations and enlargements. These being completed, it was ’ and "Les Services d’Accouchement en France." officially opened by the Marchioness of Tweeddale in the ’, libusc of C’harity in Hospitals. presence of the Lord Provost, some of the managers It is not an uncommon occurrence in this very thrifty land) and staff of the Royal Infirmary and others. The Marchioness, who made a speech before declaring the new for rich provincial men to enter hospital for operation in wards open, dwelt upon the necessity of such an institution order to shirk the fee payable to the surgeon operating in connexion with a large hospital where patients might M domicile. A scandalous incident of this kind has reregain strength after illness before returning to their cently come to light in one of the Paris hospitals, the homes and work. Twonew wings have been added to the too economical occupant of the bed being an exceedold building, giving two new dormitory wards contain- ingly wealthy suburban gentleman who duly underwent an ing twenty beds each, day rooms, bath-rooms and other operation under an assumed name. The circumstance having Changes have also been made been brought to the notice of the Municipal Council, the necessary accommodation. in the kitchen arrangements and servants’ accommo- two following resolutions, which I transcribe textually, were dation. The hospital now has beds for 100 patients. In adopted : Le Conseil (1) invite 1’administrationà prendre des. the new wards the beds are placed head to head in the mesures énergiques pour empêcher que des gens aises et meme centre of the ward, this being a plan adopted by the late riches se fassent opurer gratuitement dans nos hôpitaux; à. Mr. Fasson as giving more room. The additions and altera- rendre beaucoup plus severes les enquetes sur la situation des tions cost about 8000. personnes dont le domicile permanentParis n’est pas etabli. (2) A etudier l’application d’un prix de journee Medical -Exa7iiinatio7zs ,in Edinburgh. les malades ais6s. " special pour Last week the examinations for the University First Pro1 NewFoot-warmer for Cabs. fessional were held. The Second Professional begins this In winter the word chauffée borne by Paris cabs denotes. week. Next week the spring examinations for the Triple that a comforting foot-warmer is provided in the interior of Qualification will commence. the vehicle. This practice has recently taken a great expanMarch 28th. sion, many omnibuses and tramcars being now similarly treated. But, however comforting such a provision may beto the shivering "fare," it is not always devoid of IRELAND. danger, many accidents having happened from the in(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) haling of deleterious gases evolved by the heating material M. Loison de Viviers has recently solved the difficulty Health of Dublin during 1892. by the invention of an apparatus in which the heat procured THE births registered in the Dublin Registration District by the slacking of lime (140 to 320 calories per kilogramme) utilised. The warmer consists of two compartments, in during last year numbered 9699, or 28 per 1000, against 29 is one of which is placed some quicklime and in the other water, the were or last whilst deaths 29 2 1000 10,214, year ; per allowed, by an appropriate mechanical against an average of 27-5 per 1000 for the past ten years. the latter being The total number of deaths from zymotic diseases, which had arrangement, to percolate slowly or quickly, and during any A temperature of fallen from 1019 in 1890 to 865 in the following year, rose time desired, into the lime chamber. last year to 1500, or 262 over the average for the ten years 100° C. is thus easily maintained for a time proportional to1882-91. The increase was chiefly due to the prevalence of the capacity of the warmer. A Hospital for Plethisis for Paris. measles for the greater part of the first half of the year and to the comparatively large number of deaths from influenza In a former letter I drew attention to the crowding of and its complications in the first quarter. The mortality the general hospitals of Paris with phthisical patients from scarlet fever was only 21 deaths, against an average of and to the inconvenience and danger resulting there142 for the previous ten years ; measles caused 472 deaths, from. The Assistance Publique is, with the approval of typhus fever 9, typhoid fever 122, influenza 224 and whoop- the Municipal Council, about to remedy this state of things ing-cough 155. There were 3 cases of small-pox treated in by the creation at Augicourt, in the Department of the Dublin hospitals in 1892, but all recovered, and the disease Oise, of a hospital for phthisis. has not proved fatal in the Dublin district since March, 1888. March 27th. _________________
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I
Bridgwater trustees. As is usual in such plenty of objectors to this project of the corporation for obtaining a suitable site for the disposal of their refuse, but there is no valid reason for believing that them
being
the
cases, there will be
harm will be done to anyone or that the uninhabited district of Cadishead Moss will be in any sense prejudiced by the contemplated action of the corporation. March 28th.
BIRMINGHAM. (FROM
OUR OWN
The
CORRESPONDENT.)
Queen’s Hospital.
THE annual meeting of the board of this hospital was held on March 22nd, under the presidency of the Earl of Dudley. The chairman of the board (Alderman Clayton) said that there were three matters in the report of considerable interest : the increase in the number of the beds, the re-arrangement of the casualty ward, and the question of finance. He alluded to these in detail. He pointed out that nineteen-twentieths of the casualty patients were seen twice ; on the second visit they would be charged a registration fee. This was an important departure in the conduct of such cases, which might call for criticism. Mr. Bennet May, chairman of the Medical Committee, said that the year had been a full and satisfactory one, though there had been no very striking features to attract attention. A special vote of thanks was passed to the working-men of Birmingham for the f,1741 15s. 9d. contributed from the Hospital Saturday funds. The Women’s Hospital. The annual meeting was held on March 23rd, the mayor presiding. The report showed that the number of new patients treated at the out-patient department had been 2569, a decrease of 141 compared with last year ; the number of in-patients admitted had been 277, an increase of 67. The committee regretted the loss of Mr. Tait and desired to record their sense of the valuable services he had rendered to the hospital since he had been elected its consulting surgeon. The financial report showed an excess of expenditure over income. Various votes of thanks were passed.
Medical Trial. At the recent assizes Dr. Evans brought an action against the proprietors of the Birmingham Daily Post for an alleged libel contained in an article published on Dec. 29th, 1889. The jury awarded him a verdict with C75 damages. ltTason
College.
ceived for a moderate charge from those parents who are not in a position to pay more, whilst accommodation is afforded for the children of those who are in better circumstances and ableto pay more. The school has recently sustained a great loss in the death of Mr. Illingworth, the late Principal, and the committee will have some difficulty in replacing him.
The Assizes Accommodation for Medical Witnesses. Allusion has been made in previous letters to the entire want of proper accommodation for medical witnesses during the first few days of the assizes, when they are waiting This has now been to be called before the grand jury. remedied, a commodious room in the west corridor of St. George’s Hall having been set apart for medical and other professional witnesses by the finance subcommittee of the city council, which has the control of this and other public buildings. As the assizes are held here four times yearly for the whole of south-west Lancashire the attendance is required of many medical witnesses, who will greatly appreciate this new arrangement for their convenience and comfort. The Blackburn Murder. The trial of the youth aged sixteen for the murder of a chemist at Blackburn took place last week, ending in a verdict of manslaughter and a sentence of fifteen years’ penal servitude. The prisoner, after being arrested on the charge, made a statement, not knowing what the medical evidence would be. The evidence of Dr. Wheatley, surgeon to the Blackburn police, was to the effect that the wounds on the head of the deceased were more likely to be caused by a blow from a hammer held sideways than by striking the head against the floor. The prisoner’s conduct after the tragedy showed great coolness and cunning. The Homicides on Christmas Day and New Year’s Day in
Liverpool. tried for the murder of his wife on the morning of Christmas Day and a young woman for the manslaughter of a man on New Year’s Day. Both fatalities were the result of drink. In the former case, the woman’s back was a mass of bruises and wounds, the causes of death being shock and hæmorrhage. In the other case, the man had received two wounds in the chest, both penetrating the pericardium, and one wounding the heart itself. Sentences of fourteen and seven years respectively were passed. A
man
was
March 28th. _________________
NORTHERN COUNTIES NOTES. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
report has just been issued. It states that the expenditure was :E11,436 12s. 7d. and the income Wlaitley Convalescent Home. £10,275 10s.7d. The great event of the year has been the FROM the report presented at the annual meeting of the transference of the Queen’s Faculty of Medicine. The report Whitley Convalescent Home by Dr. Philipson it appears that deals with the growth and prosperity of the college and gives the number of patients admitted last year was 1536, being a number of interesting details. The total number 41 in excess of the previous year. The annual total
March 28th.
________________
LIVERPOOL. (FROM
OUR OWN
CORRESPONDENT.)
The -Liverpool Eye and Ear Infirmary. MR. EDGAR BROWNE, the senior surgeon to the Liverpool Eye and Ear Infirmary, has just concluded a very successful course of lectures at the hospital, which has been attended by many local medical practitioners and others coming from a considerable distance. Mr. C. G. Lee has delivered three lectures on Diseases of the Ear, the last of which was given on March 27th. These lectures are of a clinical character and are illustrated by patients. The attendance of patients is very large, and the surgeons have very favourable opportunities of demonstrating diseases of the eye and ear in all their forms. The
Liverpool
School for the
Deaf and Dumb.
not medical institutions in the strict sense of the word schools and institutions for deaf mutes are of great interest to all medical practitioners. The Liverpool School for the Deaf and Dumb commenced as a very modest institution in 1825. In 1839 the present school was erected on the site of the old Botanic Garden and opened in October, 1840. The school has given free education to all deaf and dumb
Though
children in the
city and neighbourhood,
boarders
being
re-
admitted since the institution was opened in 1869 has reached 24,753. The results are equally favourable as those given in previous reports. The financial state of the convalescent home is satisfactory, although the receipts were less than in the previous year, the falling off being under the head of legacies, and the expenses were higher, owing to some necessary improvements. Cumberland. Dr. Lediard has concluded his course of lectures to ladies on nursing. The course has been very successful, there being more than 300 entered. Dr. Lediard was the recipient of a testimonial from his class last week at the High School, Carlisle.
Small-pox. Cases of small-pox have been reported from Carlisle, Penrith and Appleby. I see also that a fatal case has occurred at South Shields. It is stated that since the institution of compulsory baths for tramps at Kirkby Stephen the visits of the tramping fraternity have diminished, as has consequently the small-pox. Still, unless the"order of the bath" is made general at country workhouses, it will not do much good.
St. Bees a a Holiday Resort. The inhabitants of St. Bees, which has great natural attractions as a seaside resort, are making an effort to develop and improve the place in this respect. The great railway companies are also aiding by placing St. Bees on their tourist system.
_
754 National
Sad Siticide of a Student. Friday evening last a student who had failed at his registration examination at Durham took his life by a large dose of chloral hydrate. It was stated at the inquest that the poor boy, whose age was only sixteen, sat at the examination from Monday until Friday and had set his heart on passing, hence his disappointment. A Long Service. This week Dr. Thos. Stainthorpe, who is medical officer to the Hexham Union workhouse, completed fifty years’ service in that capacity, having been appointed on March 24th, 1843. Dr. Stainthorpe has been in general practice for the past fifty-five years. He is always busy with public duties, and if there is a professional meeting at Newcastle he is almost certain to be present. Sunderland and North Durham Eye Infirmary. It is proposed to hold a, grand bazaar on Monday next in aid of the Sunderland Eye Infirmary. It is to be opened by the Countess of Scarborough and is likely to be one of the largest entertainments of this nature ever held for a Sunderland charity, as over 600 tickets have been already sold. Ambulance Revierv. It is proposed to hold an ambulance review of the principal centres in the northern counties this summer at Newcastle. The date is not yet fixed.
Newcastle-on-Tyne,
Hospital for Consumption.
report of the Executive Committee states that the sums promised to the building fund amount to £10,431 3s. 6d., of The
On
which ;f9571 12s. 6d. have been received. The site for the hospital has been generously given by Earl Fitzwilliam free of rent, and plans of the building have been approved. The site consists of about nineteen acres, situated three miles inland, in the county of Wicklow. It is well sheltered and has a southern aspect, and the medical members of the committee have unanimously reported in its favour. It is. proposed that the constitution and government of the hospital shall be incorporated under the Companies Act, It is intended that the buildings shall be 1867. erected on the plan of the Ventnor Hospital, in separate blocks, the extent of the building depending in the first instance upon the amount of annual support to bepromised. With a view to secure an income for the maintenance of the hospital a member of the Executive Committeehas generously offered to provide £100 per annum in perpetuity if a further sum of ;f900 per annum be promised for the
present.
Sir Patrick Dura’s Hospital, Dublin. A conversazione in aid of the funds of this charity will be’ held in the Royal College of Physicians on April 20th ; and a concert for the same purpose in the Examination Hall, Trinity College, on April 29th.
March 29th.
March 29th.
SCOTLAND. OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) (FROM
(FROM
PARIS. CORRESPONDENT.)
OUR OWN
The Obstetrical Society of France. Reopening of the Convalescent Hospital, Corstorphine. THE second session of this Society will be held at Paris im THIS hospital, which is connected with the Edinburgh the small amphitheatre of the Faculty on April 5th, 6th and Royal Infirmary, has been closed for several months owing to I 7th. The subjects of discussion will be "Symphys6otomie"’ alterations and enlargements. These being completed, it was ’ and "Les Services d’Accouchement en France." officially opened by the Marchioness of Tweeddale in the ’, libusc of C’harity in Hospitals. presence of the Lord Provost, some of the managers It is not an uncommon occurrence in this very thrifty land) and staff of the Royal Infirmary and others. The Marchioness, who made a speech before declaring the new for rich provincial men to enter hospital for operation in wards open, dwelt upon the necessity of such an institution order to shirk the fee payable to the surgeon operating in connexion with a large hospital where patients might M domicile. A scandalous incident of this kind has reregain strength after illness before returning to their cently come to light in one of the Paris hospitals, the homes and work. Twonew wings have been added to the too economical occupant of the bed being an exceedold building, giving two new dormitory wards contain- ingly wealthy suburban gentleman who duly underwent an ing twenty beds each, day rooms, bath-rooms and other operation under an assumed name. The circumstance having Changes have also been made been brought to the notice of the Municipal Council, the necessary accommodation. in the kitchen arrangements and servants’ accommo- two following resolutions, which I transcribe textually, were dation. The hospital now has beds for 100 patients. In adopted : Le Conseil (1) invite 1’administrationà prendre des. the new wards the beds are placed head to head in the mesures énergiques pour empêcher que des gens aises et meme centre of the ward, this being a plan adopted by the late riches se fassent opurer gratuitement dans nos hôpitaux; à. Mr. Fasson as giving more room. The additions and altera- rendre beaucoup plus severes les enquetes sur la situation des tions cost about 8000. personnes dont le domicile permanentParis n’est pas etabli. (2) A etudier l’application d’un prix de journee Medical -Exa7iiinatio7zs ,in Edinburgh. les malades ais6s. " special pour Last week the examinations for the University First Pro1 NewFoot-warmer for Cabs. fessional were held. The Second Professional begins this In winter the word chauffée borne by Paris cabs denotes. week. Next week the spring examinations for the Triple that a comforting foot-warmer is provided in the interior of Qualification will commence. the vehicle. This practice has recently taken a great expanMarch 28th. sion, many omnibuses and tramcars being now similarly treated. But, however comforting such a provision may beto the shivering "fare," it is not always devoid of IRELAND. danger, many accidents having happened from the in(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) haling of deleterious gases evolved by the heating material M. Loison de Viviers has recently solved the difficulty Health of Dublin during 1892. by the invention of an apparatus in which the heat procured THE births registered in the Dublin Registration District by the slacking of lime (140 to 320 calories per kilogramme) utilised. The warmer consists of two compartments, in during last year numbered 9699, or 28 per 1000, against 29 is one of which is placed some quicklime and in the other water, the were or last whilst deaths 29 2 1000 10,214, year ; per allowed, by an appropriate mechanical against an average of 27-5 per 1000 for the past ten years. the latter being The total number of deaths from zymotic diseases, which had arrangement, to percolate slowly or quickly, and during any A temperature of fallen from 1019 in 1890 to 865 in the following year, rose time desired, into the lime chamber. last year to 1500, or 262 over the average for the ten years 100° C. is thus easily maintained for a time proportional to1882-91. The increase was chiefly due to the prevalence of the capacity of the warmer. A Hospital for Plethisis for Paris. measles for the greater part of the first half of the year and to the comparatively large number of deaths from influenza In a former letter I drew attention to the crowding of and its complications in the first quarter. The mortality the general hospitals of Paris with phthisical patients from scarlet fever was only 21 deaths, against an average of and to the inconvenience and danger resulting there142 for the previous ten years ; measles caused 472 deaths, from. The Assistance Publique is, with the approval of typhus fever 9, typhoid fever 122, influenza 224 and whoop- the Municipal Council, about to remedy this state of things ing-cough 155. There were 3 cases of small-pox treated in by the creation at Augicourt, in the Department of the Dublin hospitals in 1892, but all recovered, and the disease Oise, of a hospital for phthisis. has not proved fatal in the Dublin district since March, 1888. March 27th. _________________
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